Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adv] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | For voting as they do they have reasons sufficient in their eyes and not to be called in question . |
| 2 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 3 | Dostoevsky owed a lot to Molière who is to be met in the notebooks but not to be pinned down in the major fiction . |
| 4 | The only way of addressing that differently , if indeed the guideline is strictly applied , and you 're required to identify no more than a net increase of six hundred and forty thousand in ninety five , six , the second year of this programme , then you would have to put in additional line of further savings as yet to be identified . |
| 5 | ( 1.3 ) The possible argument consists in the premiss ( 1 ) that decisions and the like are taken to be effects but also to be no more than events which follow on conditions which are required for them , the further premiss ( 2 ) that it is to be presumed that we have a single conception of effects rather than several , and the conclusion ( 3 ) that all effects , including what have been called standard effects , are merely events preceded by conditions required for them . |
| 6 | If such an attractive new influence could be spread abroad in the world , where so many people long for a religion which has that ring of truth , the detection of which is a priceless human ability acquired down through the ages and not to be denied , there would be a growing number of adherents rallying to it . |
| 7 | Canon Elvy encourages the churches to respect European values and also to be careful in distinguishing between the terms ‘ communication ’ , ‘ publicity ’ , ‘ image-building ’ and ‘ information ’ . |
| 8 | Educators advocate a mental flexibility and independence , while teaching practice aims at transmission of knowledge and culture , traditions that are certified by authorities and not to be questioned … these factors result in a very great weakness of the exclusive reliance on text books and other such authoritative sources of information . |
| 9 | Doing away with heft commissions , not having to wait six weeks or more to be paid , and , most rewardingly , meeting the people who actually look at and buy artworks , make the inevitable disruption a small price to pay . |
| 10 | Ben Turner , of the General Union of Textile Workers and soon to be President of the TUC , wrote in 1925 : |
| 11 | Software packages as yet to be developed and published for general release or as customized packages by with the same overall features of Inform , Workbase and Executive English . |
| 12 | In order to reconstitute purposeful and meaningful administrative acts we not only need to save the different communicative acts but also to be able to reconstitute their inter-relationships in real time . |
| 13 | With the help of others they have then learned to manage their feelings and not to be afraid of them . |
| 14 | Also , not to be able to take part in things and not to be able to go out in the evening I find difficult . |
| 15 | Some thought that fundholding general practitioners had been given a perverse incentive not to spend money on their patients or even to be selective in the types of patient they enrolled on their list . |
| 16 | He applies it to the particular case of young people living with their parents after marriage , by arguing that in the expanding industrial towns there was every opportunity for young people to be wage earners and therefore to be net contributors to the parental household , at a time when wages were at a very low level . |
| 17 | However , in the new urban environments it was possible for the young and fit to earn good wages and therefore to be independent of their families . |
| 18 | We did n't see these worksheets as just to be doled out , but as positive steps to increasing children 's awareness of the library and how to use it . |
| 19 | And not only that , there are four runners up prizes as well to be won , and these are a copy of the Time Form 's ‘ Horses to Follow ’ . |
| 20 | She ( and occasionally he ) is seen by some as an unnecessary interference in the realm of the doctor , by others as a monitor to assess clients ' suitability for treatment , and by others again as a provider of information about treatment , advice about choices and generally to be a shoulder to cry on . |
| 21 | It was felt that high concentrations would be more likely to cause direct stimulation of the enteric endocrine cells and thus to be effective . |